Prime Minister of Armenia: TUMO Center for Creative Technologies can become brand of Armenia on global scale

ArmInfo. TUMO Center for Creative Technologies can become brand of Armenia on global scale.  Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan stated during meeting with members of  members of the Board of TUMO Center for Creative Technologies Bekor Papazian, Rev Lebaredean, Alex Serobyan and TUMO Executive Director Marie Lou Papazian.

As press service of Government  informed according to him there is increased interest of visiting foreign high-ranking officials for our country's technology education model.

 "TUMO's current achievements are impressive, but there is still much to do, and we see huge potential for recording ever new achievements in this field. The Government stands ready to uphold this process as much as possible," the Prime Minister said.

The TUMO Board members noted that the revolution in Armenia was a great inspiration for the Diaspora, and there is great desire, enthusiasm and willingness to support the fatherland to succeed in democratic reforms and bolster economic development. They presented the recommendations developed jointly with other Board members - Alexis Ohanyan and Raffi Krikorian - on IT development and cooperation, i.e. on assisting Armenia with the establishment of business ties with leading IT companies (in particular, those from Silicon Valley), strategic and operational issues, joint work on attracting investments, developing innovative ideas, organizing annual workshops for exchanging ideas about strategy and progress analysis.  Prime Minister Pushinyan welcomed the ideas and suggested institutionalizing them by setting up an IT Support Council.

"The development of information and high technologies is among the Government's priorities, given its great potential. We are prepared to closely cooperate with the stakeholders in order to ensure sustained development of information and high technologies which, in turn, will lead to economic progress, in general, as well as to effective introduction of digital technologies in the system of public administration and in electoral processes. Finally, it will other issues of topical interest. Prime Minister Pashinyan suggested developing a roadmap for further action and building an online platform to provide for all stakeholders' permanent communication.